Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-10
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
TwENTY-sEvENTH SESSION = SIXTY
SIXTH DAY.
SENATE.

WEDNESDAY, March 9Th.
The Senate met at 10 O'clock A. NJ, the Presi-
dent in the chair.
The first business taken up was A. b. 2S7 the
Vincent irrigation billl, which was read the see
ond time.
AB.S1, relating to duties and compensation
of Mayors and Councilmen OF cities with pop
ulation notexceeding 10 900, was voted upon and
lost. Steele changed his vote from aye to no,
and gave notice of a motion 10 reconsider.
S. Bs. e,S and 2l9, TO pay claims of ex-SheIif
Edgar, of San Mateo county, were passed.
Senate concurrent resolution requesting Con
gress to restore Charles NJ. Blake 10 bis position
as Chaplain in the army, was taken up ON mo-
ton OF Mr. Murphy, and adopted.
On motion of MOtiitt the Senate refused TO re-
cede fom its amendment to s. b. 49, relating to
improvements at the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Home. aud Messrs. Briceland, Langford and
Conklin were appointed a. Committee on Confer
ence.
These bills were passed:
A. b. So providing for the formation of GER
tain religious corporations Also, A. b. 16l, rel
alive to cheats. Also, A. B. 10, relating TO the
boundary lines of Sam Benito, Fresno and Mer-
ced counties.
A. B. l75, relating 10 school-land warrants was
defeated.
A. B. 80. relating to roads and highways. Read
second time.
A. B. 263 to pay costs of suits (37th fiscal year,
to which the state is a party. Passed
The constitutional provision was suspended,
and A. :, o60 to pay the states portion POI ION OF sal
read three times and passed.
A. b. sos, providing for the printing, sale and
distribution of the State series of school books.
Read the first time, declared ION motion of Ges-
ford) a case of urgency, and passed
Afternoon Session.
The Senate took up for consideration A. B.
124, relating to fish and game, which, on motion
OF Walrath, was declared a case of urgency.
Its chief amendments to the existing law are
day of September, instead of the LIST of October,
and the open season for deer is extended from
| the lst of November until the 10Th of December.
S. b. $685. providing for the construction of a
| fshway in the Mokelumne river, with penalty
| for Noncompliance. Lost. White gave notice
| of motion to reconsider.
A. b. 521. relating to the dissolution and noti-
fication of injunctions. coming up on its passage
| Goucher took occasion TO remark that it was
drawn in the interest of irrigationiss, and in
way affected injunctions procured against hy-
| drauiie Mines
Chandler said the last remark of the gentle
| man prompted him to rise. He said the bill
originated from hydraulic mining source, and
/ had it not been amended, as 1t now was, it
would have virtually enacted the worst features
| of the debris-dam bills 1t had been sought to
smuggle it through without the amendments
| that had been decided upon, but the trick or
oversight had been detected.
Dray, Roth, Gesiord and others spoke on the
The bill was passed-ayes 21, noes l5.
| The report of the conference committee ON
| the general appropriation bill was adopted.
| Bowers by consent introduced bill author
| izing the Directors of the Industrial Home for
| the Adult Blind to use the proceeds of the labor
| of the inmates for the purchase of raw material.
| The bill was made one of urgency, read twice
| and ordered printed.
| A. B. 3lS, relating to powers and duties of
| Trustees of reclamation districts Read second
time and made the special order for II A, NJ. the
| following day.
| Gesford moved to take up the pilot bill out OF
| order The motion was lost, the San Francisco
| delegation voting solidly in he negative.
| A. c. A. 2, relating 10 irrigation known as the
| Sbanahan amendment), coming up, Murphy
| said it should be entitled an Act to enable the
| Spring Valley Water Company 70 further op-
| press the people of San Francisco.
| Murphy moved TO indefinitely postpone. Car
| ried-ayes 25, noes 6.
| Boggs introduced out of order, a bill to ap
propriate coo as a revolving fund for the pur-
| chase flute, to be manufactured at the State
| Prison at San Quentin.
| On motion OF White, the Senate took up for
| consideration the Governors veto of S. 3. 270
| the original jute bill), and the ayes and noes
were called, and the veto unanimously sus-
| tanned.
Boggs moved ~ his new jute bill be made a
! case of urgency5- I'd placed on its passage.
| Lost
| AT $50 the Senate took recess till 7:30 p. NJ.
Evening Session.